I’ve tried Zerotier before and it doesn’t hold a candle to Tailscale.

Tailscale

It’s WireGuard based and it’s completely free for 100 devices.

Newer games just aren’t as good now. And there are more great old games than there are good new ones.

Really? Seemed to always work for me.

I care about this also. I used to clean them up, but what I’ve started doing is adding and replacing parts of the share id. And I’ll usually put something stupid in there like “booger”, just to screw up their tracking data.

Matrix

Sure, but I’m just pointing out that a “proper” official Windows license isn’t cheap.

That’s not even what I was referring to. I’m talking about full anticheat server-side. Waldo Vision

No, you’re not wrong, but like you said they don’t really do much. But what I’m talking about is fully functional server-side anticheat. Check this out Waldo Vision. I skipped past the intro, cause that had WAN Show clips, which haven’t aged well…

Looks like a faulty cable

A Windows license is in the realm of $200

I think what you meant to write is “online games with anticheat are the worst thing”.

Because “online anticheat” is becoming a thing wherein the anticheat system is run on a remote server and not your local system. Not only does it not need to install malware on your local system, but it does a better job at catching cheaters.